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Edward Snowden's Christmas Message and Other News You Need to Know

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Edward Snowden has an “alternative Christmas message” for Channel 4 viewers on Wednesday. After news the Rockstar Consortium — a group that holds over 4,000 patents from telecom company Nortel — is thinking about selling its patents, Google has decided to sue to protect Android device makers. Finally, lyrics search site Rap Genius is being investigated by Google for using spammy techniques to up its page rank.

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